ABSTRACT
It was at the beginning of July 1998 in the old imperial city of Vienna, which has become a remarkable wealthy town out of the ruins from the Great War. The Hofburg, residence of the Habsburg emperors for several hundred years, was the place for the Second World Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy and thus to start a new era for the power production system at least in Europe. Austria recently took over the European Union Presidency for the second half of that year. The first world conference of that kind took place four years ago in Hawaii and the initiative came now like before from Hermann Scheer, the prophet of the Solar Age.
